Finally, I’m back! As promised, here’s a tutorial on how to make your own audio files for Shichida speed reading and listening home practice.

Though this may seem a little techie at first, once you get the hang of it, it’s really very simple. Then you can easily create audio files for speed reading / listening or convert existing audio files for speed listening. Give it a try!

Go to File –> Save Project –> Choose a filename such as “XYZ Speed 1x” –> Save (This will be a .aup file, for opening and editing in Audacity)

Go to File –> Export –> Choose a filename such as “XYZ Speed 1x” –> Save (Choose a file format that your computer can recognize. E.g. .wav, .MP3, or .M4a for Apple iTunes) (I use .M4a for playing in Apple iTunes. You may need to download a converter to do so. Follow the screen instructions if needed.)

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Thank you for writing this blog. May I know the audio for the speed reading – linking memories home practise with x1, x2 and x4 is the whole story or just the word relevant to the picture? Like a rabbit jumps over a house which smile like a strawberry… The fC are Rabbit, House, Strawberry. Then the audio will be “a rabbit jumps over a house which smile like a strawberry”? So have to flash 3 times with different speed?

Hi Bee Leng, for linking memory, the audio consists of both story and items, in various speeds.
Example:
Track 1. a rabbit jumps over a house which smiles like a strawberry (Speed x1)
Track 2. a rabbit jumps over a house which smiles like a strawberry (Speed x2)
Track 3. a rabbit jumps over a house which smiles like a strawberry (Speed x4)
Track 4. rabbit, house, strawberry (Speed x1)
Track 5. rabbit, house, strawberry (Speed x2)
Track 6. rabbit, house, strawberry (Speed x4)
My Shichida CDs for advanced age (>5) has speeds x8 and x16 as well.

If it’s a new story, I’ll use x1, followed by x2.
If not a new story, then x2 and above.
Flashing is done at x1 or x2. Quite impossible to flash at x4 and above. For these high speeds, can simply play without flashing. Can even be in the background when child is playing quietly. When the child has built an excellent memory, he can eventually ‘see’ the pictures in his mind without needing the cards.

Hi Mie Vee
Can you elaborate more on this about flashing linking memory?
I used a new set of 10 cards for my 3 yrs old son.
So , if for new stories.. (
I say
Track 1. a rabbit jumps over a house which smiles like a strawberry (Speed x1)
Track 2. a rabbit jumps over a house which smiles like a strawberry (Speed x2)
Track 4. rabbit, house, strawberry (Speed x1)
Track 5. rabbit, house, strawberry (Speed x2)
IS that right?

If you have old stories , do you mean you repeat the same set of 10 cards again the next day? Is it recommended to repeat?

Me again. May I know how to implement set 2? Now, my son is 27 months. Currently, I starting with 5 cards and then slowly increase by adding 1 card in. Now, he can manage to arrange 10 cards. So I would like to add in another set, which also contains 10 cards. Do i need to retire the set 1? or add together?

I did this with Vee at about 3 years old: do 10, then retire and new set of 10 cards. At the end of entire story, give him cards in separate packets of 10. Let him arrange row by row. If he can & wants, all 50 cards shuffled for arranging. Happy practising! 🙂

Bee LengFebruary 6, 2014 at 9:59 am

Thank you so much. After using ur method. normal speed and x 2.. my son more interest in playing this games ^^

ElizabethSeptember 4, 2014 at 8:14 pm

Hello Mievee,
Huge thanks for the current blog,it’s of great use to me)) I do home practice with my child 1,5 years old but we only do ESP ,memory grid,linking memory and puzzles,and preparational actor it’s of course. Now I intend to start imaging and speed listening. Could you explain me the point of speed listening? Is it just a way to put any information into child’s head or is it a way ti increase memory like FLASHCARDS? Because I want to record something -but I don’t know what)))thank you))

Hi Elizabeth, thank you for reading my blog! According to Prof Shichida in one of his books, audio memory is much more powerful than visual memory. Speed listening helps one to learn via the right brain through audio instead of visual. It also helps in recitation. Recitation is a form of drawing out the output.

Drawing out the output helps the child to retain the ability. Usually, this is from 3-6 years onwards.

(The right brain is activated by high speed input, that’s why flashcards need to be fast and audio files are sped up.)
When the child is used to listening to sped-up files, he won’t find it that fast.

Hi MieVee
Can this speed listening apply in picking up a new language? I am thinking to expose my 4 yr old son to Japanese language. He is able to sing songs from U tube and Korean dramas (he watches with me daily), so I believe speed listening works. But is it important to teach him the lyrics eg. for Chuggington song?
Is speed listening also for multiplication table? Is it important to show him the visual + audio for multiplication?
Looking forward to your views

Hi Raine, yes, speed listening can be used for learning a language too.

In “teaching lyrics”, do you mean teaching him how to read the lyrics? Usually, we sing and speed-sing too without looking at lyrics. This enables us to move our body and hands, which helps in memorising too.

Certain songs, I may print the lyrics on flashcards and flash with the song.
For longer songs like “Let it Go”, we referred to the printed lyrics on A4 paper for a while. Now we’ve memorised the whole song.

Yes, speed listening can work for multiplication table too. I show flashcards (visual + my voice). During play time, I may play the tracks in the background, looping for a while. Here’s my printable: Multiplication Flash Cards